Focus Session: Dynamics of Glassy Polymers Under Confinement I

Presentations

• Structural Recovery for a Single Polystyrene Ultrathin Film Using Flash DSC

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:00 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:12 AM

  Authors

  • Yung P. Koh

    • Texas Tech University

  • Siyang Gao

    • Texas Tech University

  • Sindee L. Simon

    • Texas Tech University
    • Texas Tech Univ

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• Dynamics of Poly(2-vinylpyridine)/Silica Nanocomposites from Brillouin and Raman Light Scattering

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:12 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:24 AM

  Authors

  • Shiwang Cheng

    • Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab
    • Oak Ridge National Lab

  • Alexander Kisliuk

    • Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab

  • Vladimir Novikov

    • Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab; Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee

  • Adam P. Holt

    • University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    • Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    • Department of Physics, University of Tennessee

  • Alexei Sokolov

    • Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
    • Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Lab; Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee
    • Oak Ridge National Lab
    • Department of Chemistry, University of Tennessee; Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    • University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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• Improving Dielectric Breakdown Strength: Physically Aging Amorphous Polymers and Nanocomposites

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:24 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Richard Vaia

    • United States Air Force Research Laboratory
    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Christopher Grabowski

    • United States Air Force Research Laboratory
    • Air Force Research Laboratory

  • Hilmar Koerner

    • United States Air Force Research Laboratory

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• Temperature Step Dewetting Method for Determination of T$_{\mathrm{g}}$ Dependence on Thickness for Linear and Star Branched Polystyrene

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:36 AM – March 5, 2015, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Astrid Torres Arellano

    • Texas Tech University

  • Gregory McKenna

    • Texas Tech Univ
    • Texas Tech University
    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 79409, Texas, USA

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• Influence of the Free Interface on the Glass Transition Temperature of Irreversibly Adsorbed Polystyrene Thin Films

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 8:48 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Mary Burroughs

    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University

  • Rodney D. Priestley

    • Princeton University
    • Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University
    • Princeton University, Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering

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• Modeling Mobility in Glassy Thin Films

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 9:00 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Jeffrey DeFelice

    • Dartmouth College

  • Jane Lipson

    • Dartmouth College

  • Nicholas Tito

    • Cambridge University

  • Scott Milner

    • Pennsylvania State University
    • Penn State University

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• Perturbation of Glassy Dynamics in Thin Polymer Films due to Interfaces

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 5, 2015, 9:12 AM – March 5, 2015, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Connie B. Roth

    • Department of Physics, Emory University
    • Dept. of Physics, Emory University
    • Emory University
    • Dept. of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

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• A Comparison of Particle Embedment and Nanoindentation: Probing the Surface Properties of Polymeric Materials

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 9:48 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Meiyu Zhai

    • Texas Tech Univ

  • Heedong Yoon

    • Texas Tech Univ
    • Texas Tech University

  • Gregory McKenna

    • Texas Tech Univ
    • Texas Tech University
    • Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, 79409, Texas, USA

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• Investigating the effect of chain architecture on the dynamics of thin entangled polymer films

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:00 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Ethan Glor

    • Univ of Pennsylvania
    • Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania

  • Zahra Fakhraai

    • Univ of Pennsylvania

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• Dynamic glass transition measurements on nm-thin films of low molecular mass substances using AC chip-nanocalorimetry

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:12 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Mathias Ahrenberg

    • Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany
    • University of Rostock

  • Christoph Schick

    • Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany

  • Heiko Huth

    • Institute of Physics, University of Rostock, Germany

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• Why do some diluents alter the magnitude of nanoconfinement effects on the glass transition?

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:24 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • Jayachandra Hari Mangalara

    • University of Akron

  • Nicholas Weiner

    • University of Akron

  • Michael Marvin

    • University of Akron

  • David Simmons

    • University of Akron
    • The University of Akron

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• Tuning the Tg-Confinement Effect by Controlling the Amount of Residual Surfactant Present in Emulsion Polymerized Polystyrene Thin Films

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:36 AM – March 5, 2015, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Lawrence Chen

    • Northwestern University

  • John Torkelson

    • Northwestern University

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• Homogeneous nucleation of polymers under confinement and its relation to the liquid-to-glass ``transition''

  ORAL

  March 5, 2015, 10:48 AM – March 5, 2015, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Yasuhito Suzuki

    • Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research

  • Hatice Duran

    • TOBB University of Economins and Technology

  • Martin Steinhart

    • Universit\"at Osnabr\"uck

  • Hans-J\"urgen Butt

    • Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research

  • George Floudas

    • University of Ioannina

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